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Does it HAVE to be so close to the end of the issue? How is this letter going to end – hopefully not TOO abruptly. Also, I forget – whose house is Bea at right now?
Washington’s I think
The Morris House, Washington’s headquarters. Bea kissed Alan there last night. XD
It’s still standing, and you can tour it! http://www.historichousetrust.org/item.php?i_id=20 It’s the oldest building on Manhattan!
The octagonal room: http://thedreamercomic.com/comic.php?id=308
Stairwell outside of the octagonal room: http://thedreamercomic.com/comic.php?id=310
Beautiful house on a hill! http://thedreamercomic.com/comic.php?id=316
was it just last night? wow. not even a day, but a whole lifetime ago…
And by a day, you mean several torturous weeks for us viewers ;)
lol, months probably.
I wish we could have gone when I was there last summer but with 4 of us and only as many days to visit everything we wanted to see…lol I will go again and I’ll do more historic sites and less faffing around on the subway. lol
*THAT* is what houses should look like.
HEAR HEAR! :D
I would live there. ;)
We should buy it and all live there. Muahaha!
I’m with you on that @Caera
Bwahaha!
Almost at the finale
Poor Bea! And Nate looks like he’d dearly love to be over there fighting alongside his friends.
Only 2 more pages?! Omigosh.
VI–Well, it looks like Alan made it back to his tent alive, which is not what he wanted. Wonder what he’ll do next.
You WOULD update the minute B&N kicked me out and I had to drive 30 minutes home. Woof. I was watching all evening while I wrote too!
Anyway…
Ahhh Nathan! *Swoon, whimper* It’s like he knows something happened. I love the way the two of them are both watching the sunset. Think he’s thinking it might be one of his last? :(
And Bea’s finally got the waterworks going. Wow. Took her way longer than any of us!
The VI: Well Alan made it back to his tent on his own feet, but he’s going to pull another “oof” any second, I should think…Pull through, man! Your girl is waiting on ya!
Love the colors, again. Fall colors. My favorite time of year…
And I did order my copy of The Dreamer. :D I’ve no money for the Knowlton pillowcase though. :( I really wanted it too. But I just won’t have any money coming in in time. Sad day! Can you save me one to buy off you at Anime Boston? :/
Sadly, no! Spreadshirt prints and ships the products directly, so I never see them personally. I don’t have a stash of the anywhere. :(
They’re watching the smoke from the battle. Eep, I hope Nathan’s not thinking this is his last night! I sure hope he was more optimistic than that…
p.s. Bea doesn’t know about Thom. :(
LOL I didn’t even SEE the smoke! I was too busy staring at Nathan…lol
I know Bea doesn’t know about Knowlton but the fact she only started crying now after reading that letter that had us sniffling the first few lines…I just wonder if Nathan feels something happened to Knowlton. I always seem to “know” when something happens…
Grr I wants a pillowcase…
Lol, I didn’t notice the smoke either! *sigh* it’s too soon for Nathan to go! Though I’ve already got a new “Tribute poem” slowly trying to form in my head…
By the way, *hides behind Nathan* i just got my pillowcase in the mail today…I’ll bring it to Anime Boston so you can huggle it
I have one! lol
I thought you said you didn’t have a Knowlton pillowcase??? Or did you just get a very nice surprise???
Oh no I have a Nathan pillowcase lol sorry I thought you were talking about bringing a Nathan one. I’ll have mine with me of course.
Oh and a guy at the bookstore saw my shirt today and knew who Nathan was! :D
That’s awesome! And I’m getting Nathan next :D I just thought you’d be less likely to hurt me if I was hiding behind him ;)
Why would I hurt you? And you know we’re all going to have to have a pillow fight now. lol
Well you /were/ growling lol ;)
And I know! It will be epic, and should be in the middle of the Warren Tavern
I growl but I don’t bite. Especially not people I like. lol ;)
I don’t know if the Tavern owners would let us, but they might laugh if we did the cosplay…
:) Lol, they’d probably be thinking the same thing as my sister “They’re all NUTS!”
Of course. :D
I don’t know….Bea’s only read the letter once probably, and it’s taken her less time than it has us, so really she’s ahead of us I think.
But she wasn’t crying WHILE reading it! XD
Bea has been re-reading that letter all day. I promise you!
But did she cry the FIRST time? O.O
My theory:
First – confusion
Second – shock and a reluctant comprehension
Third – teh teerz
So we still had her beat if it took three times…:P
beautiful… absolutely stunning. I just about cried on this page. And only two more pages left… ah this week will go by so slow.
thanks…!
No, Nathan! Please don’t look so scared and noble! I can’t stand how wonderful you are!
I’m sort of intrigued by Alan talking about Bea dreaming, and I feel so sorry for her, even though it looks like Alan isn’t doing too badly in the VI. For some reason, I’m imagining their reunion resembling the very beginning of the comic except much more emotional, provided that Bea doesn’t kill Alan first.
“Please don’t look so scared and noble! I can’t stand how wonderful you are!”
Exactly the words I was thinking…uncanny! Not really. lol
Also, I have no idea if this means anything or if I’m looking for things that aren’t there, but I noticed that, when they first appeared, Bea was wearing a blue dress and Alan was disguised as a redcoat, but now she’s wearing a red dress and he’s wearing his blue Continental uniform.
Interesting. I think it would have been more symbollic if she had been in red first and then went blue as she changed but I like the reversal. It’s very balancing. :)
Love the coloring in the first 3 panels, and Bea’s reaction in panel 6 is just great.
the VI — that better be a cough-drop filled med-tent I see….
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!
Alan: “Quick! Someone find me a dead body!”
Doctor Not-John: “A dead body? But why, sir?”
Alan: “Because if I’m not dead when we return, Miss Whalley will kill me!”
LOL! Exactly.
Nathan!!! Don’t go into the light!
Nathan: I can’t help it!!! It’s sooo beautifulll!!! *ZAP* GAH!
Hey at least he ain’t a bug. A little zap won’t hurt him. *hands Nathan a bandaid*
Nathan: Kiss it and make it better!
Me: Of course *smooch*
Oooooooooh my goodness. This page. Is SO. Beautiful.
:)
This is a really long letter! Is there anyway we can have a complete copy of the letter he wrote to read? I think I might understand it better if I had everything in front of my rather than over 20 pages.
If it’s read quicker, over those pages, the letter seems shorter and less chopped up by this time span of torture. ;)
I think I’ll post it as the voting incentive when I post the last page. Enough of you have asked for it!
YAY!!!
Love the way Alan’s letter refered to Bea’s dream-state – that seems to be what really set her off crying. (Heck, I would!)
And of an interesting side-note: I got a list of soon-to-be-released audiobooks for children, from one of my library lenders. There were only two nonfiction titles: a biography of Nathan Hale, and a biography of Robert Rogers. I know that libraries are supposed to present conflicting viewpoints with no judgement, but I’m only getting the Hale one for our collection. Hey, he’s our State Hero, right???
…can *I* listen to the biography of Robert Rogers…? What’s it called?!
Robert Rogers: Rogers’ Rangers and the French and Indian War by Jennifer Quasha. It’s a biography that came out (in book form) in 2002, and they’ve finally got around to putting it on audio. Geared towards grades 4-8, only 112 pages long. When I searched Robert Rogers on Amazon, a couple of other good choices – for adults – came up. Oh no, I feel my loyalties slipping!
Ha ha! I’m just interested in learning more about him. I guess the book for kids stops with the French and Indian war where he was still a good guy. Scallywag!
My friend saw a movie about him on the TV the other night and it was just the French and Indian War, so he was looked at pretty positively. My friend was FREAKED OUT. He’s never thought of him as anything but a complete and utter villain, if an apt one. lol
Poor Bea! I really wouldn’t be surprised if she’s read the letter through several times, at least. I would, if I were in her position. Sometimes when you get a letter like that, it doesn’t quite hit you till later, when the words have had time to sink in. Maybe that’s why she didn’t cry while she was reading it – her brain hadn’t gotten around the meaning yet, and now it’s hit her. Now she’s sad and scared.
Yes, between the mysterious meetings in Knowlton’s tent last night, Alan coughing up blood, Alan KISSING her, and waking up to find everyone off at war and an ominous “goodbye” letter on her night stand, I think our leading lady is finally in shock.
If Alan *does* die like he’s predicting, what on earth is she going to do in 1776?
p.s. It is worth noting the this is the only issue in The Dreamer (and will be the only issue!) where Bea doesn’t say one word. So not like her.
lol You know you’re right….that’s freaky! lol
Gah! You’re killing me Smalls! I don’t want this issue to end yet, but I can’t stand waiting for the resolution (both of the letter and of Bea seeing Alan is alive). You, Ms. Lora, are a sadist! :) All that’s missing to make you an evil sadist would be an ominous chuckle when we whimper about each page and what’s to come.
My grumblings aside, this is a lovely page…one of your best, I think. I (like a few others) was definitely interested by Alan’s comment on Bea’s dream-state. As far immersed into the 18th Century as she is (and me too), I bet it would be pretty easy to start believing that the 21st Century life she leads is some sort of weird dream instead of the reverse. As much as I hate it when she wakes up and lives her “normal” teenaged life in the present, I’m really interested in seeing how much this last stretch of time in Revolutionary America has changed her.
Awww, such a sweet page. Another beautiful one, Lora. Really looking forward to getting the next graphic novel, too.
Must say I JUST GOT MY KNOWLTON PILLOWCASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HUZZAH!!!
So is that smoke from all the cannon and musket discharges? I didn’t notice any structures that could have caught fire anywhere in the battle scene.
out of curiosity, where is nathan supposed to be/what direction is he looking in to be able to see the battle from that angle? My characters have a small farm outside of Flushing that overlooks the bay, and I was wondering where he was in relation to that…
Nathan: I feel a great disturbance in the Force . . .
Oh dear, here we go again! lol
I went to my local B&N store and pre-ordered Volume 2! Here’s hoping they order bunches to put on their shelves. :) On the downside though, they told me that they couldn’t get Volume 1 at all…tried to tell me it was out of print. When I looked at them skeptically, they adjusted their stance to “B&N can’t get it, so your best bet would be to try and order it online somewhere.” Just an FYI to you and anyone else hunting down Volume 1 (which I didn’t buy when it came out since I had the chapter by chapter releases…but now I’m sad that I didn’t).
I got my volume 1 on Amazon. It’s now $8 plus free shipping with Amazon Prime :)
http://www.amazon.com/Dreamer-Consequence-Nathan-Hale-Pt/dp/B005OL9S30/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1320942030&sr=8-3
We’re reprinting Volume 1 so it’s all shiny and new. I have no idea why you can’t pre-order it but that is disturbing. I sent this info onto my editor. Hopefully he has answers. Thank you for letting me know!!
OK: my editor looked into it, Volume 1 *was* reprinted, and is at the distribution center and should be in stores in 2 weeks. Whatever that person told you was fortunately wrong! Try your local comic shop, or another book store.
I recommend you get this reprint version, instead of a used copy of the first printing. We fixed a bunch of typos and it is sporting the new logo, so it’ll be a match set with Volume 2!
I just found out that the United States Marine Corps was officially established on this day in 1775 and is the oldest branch of the US military. Which means that technically we had a Marine Corps BEFORE we had an officially established US Navy. So what’s up with that? It’s sort of like putting the cart before the horse. I just figured any military history buffs out there would be interested in this odd piece of trivia.
Well, they formed the Continental Army in response to Bunker Hill. A navy wasn’t going to do them much good up in Boston when the British had the port-city completely surrounded. That’s my guess. Limited resources!
Okay, I was looking at the last six pages just now, with music playing in the background: “The Destruction of Hometree” from Avatar… and the sad ending bit really seems to fit… I’m gonna go cry in a corner now…
This page is beautiful!! Please don’t let Alan die! Bea can nurse him back to health ;) then marry him of course! Amazing art as always <3
I did re-read Issues 1 to not finish 13 so far and the dream is becoming true for Bea and when it comes to the part for her to choose between Alan or Ben.